Word: verboten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Adolf Hitler's victory inspection of bomb-shattered Warsaw last October, German-occupied Poland has been verboten to neutral correspondents. Only the meagerest details of how 19,000,000 people were faring at the hands of their new Nazi masters filtered through the news blackout to the outside world. The woeful experiences of escaped refugees, occasional off-the-record reportings of neutral consular agents, revelations of the Nazis themselves, have generally added up to the same thing...